Report on Business Management Microsoft
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Report on Business Management Microsoft
Added on 2020-04-29
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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 2Question 1Mentoring is an important role played by the management of every organization. Unlike in the traditional mentoring where the process had to be conducted on a one on one basis things have changed with the current technological changes. Conventional mentoring refers to the traditional form of mentoring where the mentors had to have a formal or informal one on one sitting with their mentees for the entire mentoring program (Iomaire, 2008). An Intel organization is a good example of a company that uses conventional mentoring programs, but still manages tosuccessfully mentor their employees (Firth et al, 2017, p. 6). This has resulted to vast opportunities which organization and their employees are taking advantage. Examples of these opportunities include peer mentoring which involves an organization picking one or a few employees, trains them to become expertise then assigns them a group of their colleagues to a mentor. This type of relationship does not base its functionality on hierarchies rather it is only meant to create a reciprocated learning environment for the entire organization. As Firth et al (2017, P. 8) explain, peer mentoring is currently being applied by the Microsoft group in their attempts to successfully recruit new employees. In comparing the two, itcan be said that the peer relationship mentoring is more popular than the conventional mentoring in a number of ways. To begin with, peer relationship mentoring widens the learning grounds because several peers can be used as mentoring experts unlike traditionally where the role was assigned to a single mentor. Second, there is room for diversification of knowledge due to the involvement of a number of persons in the mentoring program (Gladwell & White, 2016). Third, a peer mentoring might be more successful than conventional mentoring as most employees are more willing to listen to fellow collogues than they may listen to a person from a higher rank. On
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 3the other hand, conventional mentoring overpowers peer mentoring based and the experience level of mentors. Peer relationship mentors are less experienced and might not mentor the employees beyond the levels of their received training. While peer relationship mentoring model allows room for development of peer relationships, the conventional mentoring model allows development of close personal relationship between the mentee and the mentor. As a result, employees can learn from their mentors even beyond the intended mentoring program. Conventional mentoring can be revolutionized to fit in today’s first changing work environmentsby incorporating modernized programs (Smith, 2015, p. 298). An Intel Company has managed toremain current despite their traditional mentoring model application. Conventional mentoring at times faces the limitation of mentor availability. This is because the number of mentors is usuallylimited this is unlike the case of a company that uses peer relationship mentors where several are available at any given time. Finally, peer mentoring creates a wide ground for networking. (Johnson, 2001) For instance, Microsoft is using their current workforce to reach out to other potential young people working in other organizations. It also enables the company to learn the strategies and performance procedures applied by other organizations, hence offering them a more competitive advantage. Unlike the Intel organization, Microsoft group keeps all their staff engaged and none of them feels left out in the overall running of the organization. Question 2 A system Map is a diagram that gives a visual representation of a service technical based organization revealing the companies’ business actors, the existing links between actors, and how materials, energy, information, and funds flow through the entire organizational system. Below is a sample of a System Map for McDonalds, which is used in maintaining a company’s
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